Nicolas Dessaigne
15 statements across 4 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 30, 2024 by Nicolas Dessaigne · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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May 30, 2024 positive
Dessaigne: Founders should manually do the work before writing software
“Doing things that don't scale, I think the main goal is that how much can I learn today? Not waiting to have developed anything. Maybe what I'm going to develop is going to be the wrong thing. Like, if I can do anything like manually even going physically doin…”
May 30, 2024
Dessaigne: Algolia founders manually coded Product Hunt's first search integration
“I remember when we implemented Algolia in Product Hunt, you know, Ryan, the founder, that was before Product Hunt became huge, and he didn't have, like, any resource to implement search himself, and so we remembered the Stripe story. We did it. Like, he gave u…”
Nov 26, 2024
Nov 26, 2024 positive
Dessaigne: Dev Founders Should Offer Help in Communities Instead of Pitching
“Your goal is not to sell your product just yet here. Just be helpful. Just establish yourself as the expert. And of course people are going to start knowing you and trust your brand, your company. That will help you down the line. People will think about you w…”
Nov 26, 2024 positive
Algolia closed its first $2,000/month deal with only a command-line demo
“Actually, I still remember our first customer, that first meeting, when I did a demo using a command line to index content. We didn't have any API client yet. We didn't have any admin UI yet. Just a command line and then a very simple webpage to show the searc…”
Nov 26, 2024 positive
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Feb 12, 2025 negative
Dessaigne: Hiring more people before PMF slows startups down
“The more people, the slower you get to product market fit. Because you become slow, there's a lot of inertia that you have to fight against. Like if you have a big team, then comes the problem of like, hey, and you want to pivot for whatever reason, then you h…”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Open source models build enterprise trust and shorten regulated sales cycles
“I have that company in mind, Medplum, who is building an open source EHR, and I think for them, being open source was not about the go-to-market in the sense of, like, selling to developers. It was really about creating the trust at their customers, like, in t…”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Extreme technical difficulty makes startup ideas better by deterring competitors
“If something is really hard,
On the technical side, I mean, I think that's an even better idea.
Like nobody else is going to try, right?
If it's hard, like the bar is so high, nobody tries, and nobody does it.
If you have the courage to actually do it, if you …”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Investing ahead of future AI models justifies the temporary overspend
“If you do invest in it, if you do, you're going to learn a lot from the process, and once the models are going to be ready, you plug them, and your product is going to be much better day one. So indeed, you have maybe wasted, I don't think that's the right wor…”
Oct 21, 2025 negative